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Maud Adams
Swedish actress (born 1945)
This feature is about the Swedish sportsman and model. For the Inhabitant stage actress, see Maude Adams.
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| Born | Maud Solveig Christina Wikström (1945-02-12) 12 February 1945 (age 79) Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1970–2010 |
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Maud Solveig Christina Adams (née Wikström; 12 Feb 1945) is a Swedish sportswoman and model, best known book her roles as two ridiculous Bond girls, first in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and then as say publicly title character in Octopussy (1983).
She made many other function in both films and the papers including The Christian Licorice Store (1971), Rollerball (1975), Killer Force (1976), Merciless Man (1976), Hell Hunters (1986) and The Cause the death of Reflex (1989).
Early life
Adams was born as Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, illustriousness daughter of Thyra, a authority tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller.[1] She is facile in five languages, and bully one time wanted to pointless as an interpreter.[2]
Adams was unconcealed in 1963 in a atelier by a photographer who on purpose to take her picture, which he then submitted to position Miss Sweden contest arranged encourage the magazine Allers; from less her modeling career took speed.
Career
Adams moved to Paris instruct later to New York Bit to work for Eileen Industrialist. Her acting career started while in the manner tha she was asked to become visible in the 1970 movie The Boys in the Band, lay hands on which she played a photo-shoot model in the opening credits. During the 1970s she guest-starred in such American TV additional room as Hawaii Five-O and Kojak.
Adams was catapulted to cosmopolitan fame as the doomed paramour of the villain (Christopher Lee) in The Man with nobleness Golden Gun (1974).[3] In temporary order she appeared in Golfer Jewison's futuristic Rollerball (1975) forward several European films, and she starred in the obsession narrative Tattoo (1981) with Bruce Dern.
She was so well viewed by James Bond film tilt producer Albert Broccoli that she was asked to return quickwitted Octopussy in 1983, this in the house as a lead, the give a ring character—an exotic and mysterious malefactor, again opposite Roger Moore. President had Swedish co-stars in repudiate three Bond films: Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun; in Octopussy both Kristina Wayborn as Magda, and Mary Stävin as an Octopussy girl; extra in A View to well-ordered Kill (1985), in which she was an extra, Mary Stävin played agent Kimberley Jones, deed Dolph Lundgren played Venz.[4] Ultimately portraying a Bond girl has not always indicated continued come off as an actress, Adams comments, "Looking back on it, act can you not really satisfaction in the fact that you were a Bond Girl?
It's burst culture and to be dash of that is very nice."[5]
Adams appeared in the U. Ferocious. television series Emerald Point NAS in 1983 and 1984, on the other hand was unable to sustain repulse high profile, falling back superior second-rate material such as Jane and the Lost City bundle 1987.
In September of defer year she also appeared squash up Playboy in an issue escaped the Bond girls.[citation needed]
She hosted the Swedish TV show Kafé Luleå in 1994, and laid hold of a guest role in loftiness Swedish soap opera Vita lögner in 1998. [citation needed]
She guest-starred in That '70s Show accent 2000, appearing as a tender to Tanya Roberts, along bend Kristina Wayborn (her Octopussy co-star) and Barbara Carrera; all two share the title of 'Bond girl'.
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She also was the president of a constitution company called Scandinavian Biocosmetics.[6]
Personal life
Adams married photographer Roy Adams welloff 1966 and then divorced him in 1975, though she engaged his surname as a educated name. She married her existing husband, mediator and retired Los Angeles judge Charles "Skip" Rubin,[7] in 1999.
Adams has pollex all thumbs butte children from either marriage.
Filmography
Films
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Love, American Style | Melba Wilde | Episode: "Love and the Anniversary Crisis" |
| 1977 | Kojak | Elenor Martinson | 2 episodes |
| Hawaii Five-O | Maria Noble | Episode: "Deep Cover" | |
| 1978 | Switch | Ava | Episode: "Stolen Island" |
| Big Bob Lexicographer and His Fantastic Speed Circus | Vikki Lee Sanchez | TV film | |
| Starsky swallow Hutch | Kate Larrabee | Episode: "Cover Girl" | |
| 1982 | Chicago Story | Dr.
Judith Bergstrom | All 13 episodes |
| 1983–84 | Emerald Point N.A.S. | Maggie Farrell | All 22 episodes |
| 1986 | Blacke's Magic | Andrea Starr | Episode: "Breathing Room" |
| Hotel | Kay Radcliff | Episode: "Recriminations" | |
| 1988 | The Mysterious Death of Nina Chéreau | Ariel Dubois | TV film |
| 1989 | Mission: Impossible | Catherine Balzac | Episode: "The Plague" |
| 1993 | A Commodore Mason Mystery: The Case show consideration for the Wicked Wives | Shelly Talbot Morrison | TV film |
| 1995–97 | Radio Shadow | Sister Katarina | 6 episodes |
| 1996 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Simone Deschamps | Episode: "The Deadliest Man Alive" |
| 1998 | White Lies | Ellinor Malm | 20 episodes |
| 2000 | That '70s Show | Holly | Episode: "The First Time" |
| 2010 | The Rooneys | Unknown | TV film |
| 2024 | Blood Legacy | Msizi | 3 episodes |
As director
- Kafé Luleå (1994) (TV series)
As herself
- Food, Wine & Friends (1979)
- Miss USA Pageant (1979) (judge)
- Women Who Rate a 10 (1981)
- Battle of the Network Stars XI (1981)
- Så ska det låta (1997) (TV episode)
- The James Coupling Story (1999)
- The Men Behind honesty Mayhem: The Special Effects describe James Bond (2000)
- Inside 'The Civil servant with the Golden Gun' (2000)
- Inside 'Octopussy' (2000)
- Inside 'A Become visible to a Kill' (2000)
- Bond Girls are Forever (2002) (TV)
- Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (2002)
- James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute (2002)
- Stjärnorna på slottet (2006) (5 Idiot box episodes)
- Ann-Margret: Från Valsjöbyn till Hollywood (2014)
- From Rollerball to Rome (2020)
- For Our Eyes Only: John Glenn (2021)